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Originally a tree lined thoroughfare, Marlowes when it was developed in the early 1950s became the main shopping centre for the new town.

Mills and rows of cheap housing were swept away during the development of Marlowes in the new town of Hemel Hempstead.

Moving further downstream towards Marlow, we reach Bisham on the Berkshire side, seen here from the towpath just beyond Marlow's Higginson Park.

When the New Town was being built many new streets were named after people linked with the town: King Harry Street, Waterhouse Street and Combe Street, are adjacent to Marlowes where the first

He lived his last few years in Marlow, further upstream, and is buried in its churchyard.

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

Jerome K Jerome, who wrote 'Three Men in a Boat', lived near this part of the River Thames in Marlow.

With the wide expanse at the top of Marlowes, this area became an overflow for the cattle market.

This replaced William Tierney Clark's suspension bridge of 1827, a smaller version of which survives across the Thames at Marlow.

The popular Complete Angler Hotel lies on the Berkshire bank and looks out across the Thames to Marlow.

York Town - the older part of Camberley - grew on a grid-pattern from the military set-up when the army moved here from Marlow in 1812.

He lived his last few years upstream in Marlow and is buried in its parish churchyard by the river.

The lock, its footbridge and the lock-keeper's house have all recently been completely rebuilt as part of a major programme of upgrading all the locks and weirs along the Thames above Marlow.

Downstream beyond Marlow the Thames reaches Cookham, where it blunders about and divides into three channels before turning south by chalk cliffs.

On the right are the Edwardian buildings occupied by Marlow's from 1925 to 1975, Watson's Post Office and the Queens Head.

Built in 1833 by William Tierney Clarke, whose Marlow and Budapest bridges survive, it was replaced in 1923 and again in 1987.

By the 1980s, the market and the linear shopping area in Marlowes were dated and losing trade.

The popular Complete Angler Hotel lies on the Berkshire bank and looks out across the Thames to Marlow.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

Along the Marlow Road at the west end of Kidwell's Park is the former Technical School, dated 1895.

These included the lodges which were built on the High Street at the end of the carriage drive (their sites are now the Library Gardens), by 1901 re-erected half way up Marlow Hill, and the lodge

This was changed dramatically by the 1768 Turnpike Trust Act; it established a fine toll road from Hatfield to Reading via Amersham, High Wycombe and Marlow.

The canal meets the River Gade at Heath Park, to the south of Marlowes.

Although the bridge which spanned the entrance to Marlowes was dirty and shabby, over 500 people watched it being demolished at midnight on 6 July 1960.